Juanita McNeely: A St. Louis Original Gets Her Homecoming at SLAM
She studied the masters at the Saint Louis Art Museum as a girl; now the museum gives her the retrospective she was owed. ‘Juanita McNeely,’...
Month : October 2026
‘Picturing Independence’ at SLAM: America at 250 in Pictures
As the United States turns 250, the Saint Louis Art Museum looks at how the young republic learned to picture itself. ‘Picturing Independence,’ on view...
‘Quilts and Coverlets’: Whitework Treasures at the Saint Louis Art Museum
White on white, stitch by stitch: ‘Quilts and Coverlets: American Needlework in White,’ now at the Saint Louis Art Museum through April 18, 2027, gathers...
‘Unsettling the City’: Julie Mehretu’s Monumental ‘Epigraph, Damascus’ at SLAM
Some paintings you look at; Julie Mehretu’s ‘Epigraph, Damascus’ you enter. The monumental work — layers of ink, paint and printed imagery mapping a city...
Saint Louis Art Museum: A Palace of Art on Art Hill
At the top of Art Hill in Forest Park stands the building that outlasted a World’s Fair: the Saint Louis Art Museum, founded in 1879...
Missouri Botanical Garden: Shaw’s Garden, America’s Oldest
St. Louis calls it Shaw’s Garden, after the English merchant who founded it in 1859 and gave it to the city: the Missouri Botanical Garden,...
Citygarden: Downtown’s Sculpture Playground
Downtown St. Louis keeps a garden where the art is larger than life and the fountains are for everyone. Citygarden, opened in 2009 across two...
Laumeier Sculpture Park: Monumental Art Under Open Sky
In Laumeier Sculpture Park, the gallery walls are oak trees and the ceiling is the Missouri sky. This 105-acre park in Sunset Hills, opened in...
Cahokia Mounds: The Great Ancient City Across the River
Fifteen minutes from downtown St. Louis stands the largest ancient city ever built north of Mexico. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, a UNESCO World Heritage...
The Hill: St. Louis’s Italian-American Neighborhood
The fire hydrants are painted green, white and red, and the whole neighborhood smells faintly of garlic and espresso: The Hill is St. Louis’s storied...
